F3AR and other games which swap letters for numbers

The only artwork for Thief 4 that exists is this logo. It must have posed its creator something of a headache. Why else would they have replaced the 'e' with a 4? At least a 3 looks like a ba🀅ckwa๊rds 'E'. Did no-one think of this when they were signing off the logo?

Wipeout 3

For a🔥nyone who remembers the early days of PlayStation when it was still aimed at stoners and clubbers, Sony used to get shithot designers l💦ike The Designers Republic to work on Wipeout for them. Although, to be honest, if finding a futuristic font on FreeFonts.com and replacing the 'e' with a '3' makes you a shithot designer, we're in the wrong job.

Driv3r

This was probably the first time we were genuinely ag꧟grieved at the use of a '3' instead of an 'e'. Mainly because it made it such a pain in the ass to spell-check any articles that🤡 used the word Driv3r. And the game was a bit rubbish. Ha ha, we can say that now and nobody gives a crap.

Shadowman: 2econd Coming

Say it with us, as it's written. Two-econd coming. Phonetically that's all wrong. A '2' simply doesn't look like an S unless you're foo🐎lish enough to buyౠ a personalised numberplate that's supposed to say 'Steve’s' but reads 2T3 UES.

1nsane

Or, as we never called it, when we never asked for it in the shop: onesane.

Any we've missed/deliberately forgotten?

April12, 2010